If we all belong to the #CoSoverse... ๐ค
What's your quirky superpower?
What "accessories" would go with your action figure?
What league do you belong to here?
And who or what's your greatest nemesis?
๐ Did he have a catchphrase?
@MLClark Poking around the Internet ...
"Love with your heart, use your head for everything else"
Also ...
Boyfriend: It's the man who flies like an eagle!
Woman: It's the man with muscles of lead!
Artist: It's the masked enemy of all evil!
Boy: Are you kidding? It's some nut in his underwear.
Father: That's no ordinary nut, son. That's Captain Nice!
"That's no ordinary nut, son. That's Captain Nice!" is an absolute winner.
May we all aspire to be not-so-ordinary nuts ourselves. ๐
@MLClark The opening and closing credits ... William Daniels goes on to win Emmys in 1985 and 1986 for "St. Elsewhere."
@MLClark I remember the Super Dave commecials, didn't know there was a show.
Oh yeah! I watched that variety show devotedly as a kid - every episode featuring some strange spoof entertainment acts, around which Super Dave was always getting into extreme stunt accidents and then cheerfully/horrifically groaning about them after. ๐ And I turned out PERFECTLY FINE.
@MLClark "And I turned out PERFECTLY FINE."
I learned my life philosophy from Bugs Bunny. So there's that.
@MLClark I was friends with Chuck Jones' granddaughter. Her house was full of memorabilia. When she gave birth, Chuck drew a pencil sketch of Bugs holding the baby. It was his way of saying, "This is to pay for her college."
There used to be a Chuck Jones store in Newport Beach with artwork like what you posted, but it closed long ago.
I have a Tiny Toons cel on the wall. And a Marvin Martian. ๐
@MLClark Chuck Jones' well-known Road Runner Rules.
I have a copy of "Chuck Amuck" which was the original source for the rules.
What a sweet gesture on Chuck's part. And yay for Marvin the Martian, our favourite little alien sociopath who can't decide if he just wants to study Earth or destroy it! "Isn't that lovely?" :)
Oh, those are very sweet additions to the home. :)
With NASA never far from view as well! ๐
๐คฏ HOW DID YOU KEEP THAT TRIBBLE FROM TRIBBLING?
What a lovely set of reminders of some of the nicest things we humans get up to, when we aren't too busy making life harder for each other instead. :) That's a beautiful little happy place you've set up for yourself, Stephen!
@MLClark "HOW DID YOU KEEP THAT TRIBBLE FROM TRIBBLING?"
I removed its battery. ๐ It does trill, when it has its battery.
@MLClark The Chuck Jones Gallery has closed, but there's now a Chuck Jones Center for Creativity in nearby Costa Mesa. If you can get past a paywall ...
Craig Kausen was the husband of my friend. I helped run her Costa Mesa City Council race. (She lost ...)
@MLClark @WordsmithFL Marvin is us as a species.
Oh my goodness, Matt, you're 100% right. ๐ He's the best and the worst of us. He uses his words to describe his feelings... and then his disintegration gun to do something about them! ๐คฆ
@MLClark @WordsmithFL OMG I learned the coolest Super Dave adjacent trivia recently. Super Dave is played by the comedian Bob Einstein. It turns out his brother is the even more famous Albert Brooks. Albert changed his surname professionally but Bob did not. So Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein!
This might be my superpower. Trivial trivia.
Oh, that's a GREAT superpower here. :) Thanks for the fun tidbit, Fellixe!
@MLClark I actually have two super powers: 1) I have parking mojo. I am nearly always able to score a great parking space, and even if all the parking spots are full, someone will pull out of a spot just as Iโm approaching. Super useful in this city. 2) Anything that can be knotted will be knotted near me. Rope, chains, hoses, it doesnโt matter what. My hubby likes to say that Wonder Woman would never be able to use her Lasso of Truth on me because it would just wind up in a big ball of knot.
@MLClark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Nice